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Labor 411 is a research organization that produces national as well as city-specific directories of union-made goods and services in the United States. It is one of the largest directories of union-made goods and services in the country. [1] [2]
International Plate Printers, Die Stampers and Engravers Union of North America; International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers (Novelty and Production Workers) International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC) International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE)
Textile and clothing trade unions are labor unions that represent workers in the textile industry and garment industry. A partial list is as follows. International IndustriALL Global Union (Switzerland) International Trade Union Confederation (Belgium) Africa Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (South Africa) Asia
In 2004, UNITE announced that it would merge with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) to form UNITE HERE. In 2009 most of the apparel and laundry workers in UNITE HERE broke away to form a separate union known as Workers United, which affiliated with the Service Employees International Union. [3]
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first US unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s.
The union successfully campaigned to unionize workers at J.P. Stevens & Co. However, the industry was in sharp decline in the United States, [ 4 ] and by 1995, the union had only 129,000 members. That year, it merged with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union , to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees .
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By 1920, the union had contracts with 85 percent of men's garment manufacturers and had reduced the workweek to 44 hours. Under Hillman's leadership, the union tried to moderate the fierce competition between employers in the industry by imposing industry wide working standards, thereby taking wages and hours out of the competitive calculus.